The first item is something I forgot to post in a previous week:
1. This Business Insider article by the head of the biggest asset management company in the world: Larry Fink: Contemporary Art and Luxury Condos Are The New Gold.
2. Learning more about symbols, like the eye of horus - a symbol of protection, royal power good health, and 8 pointed stars - which have a variety of meanings such as the time portal through which quetzocoatl passes through. I've realized I've carved some of these elements into my art before without realizing it and now am thinking about getting more deliberate about it.
3. Lunenburg and the Portland Street area of Dartmouth - after dropping off work this week I realized what these two shopping district have in common: lots of cool indie shops and restaurants, many of which are owned and operated by younger people, and a relative lack of big box/mega chain stores. It's nice!
4. This Wall Street Journal video about why the income inequality gap is widening. Not a 'favourite thing' but interesting. Ends with some doom and gloom about how hard this will be to change, but will it? What if the folks sitting on big wealth stores with way more than they really need to be comfy/set for life, put more money back into the economy by collecting art from living artists/craftspeople (the new gold!), or into real estate to create affordable housing/rent to own/affordable commercial rental opportunities... or come up with other ways that could shrink this gap and give more people the opportunity to own their own homes and businesses, in a win/win sort of way, not a rich person/charity case sort of way, just like society used to be in the 50's, only with better human rights and internet. Just an idea! Solution number two: everyone wake up, speak up and quit letting wealth pool in the pockets of potentially psychopathic people via megabonuses and CEO salaries as illustrated by Jason Bateman's boss in this movie I just watched on Netflix "Identity Thief". This is a feel good movie because the people who got shafted by a greedy boss shuffle along to form a better company and there's a happy ending.
5. Terry Alex's twitter feed: @takecareofUUU full of inspiring quotes and pics
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